SOUND OFF: Dec. 27 - Job destroyer, schools, good old boys club

If you watched the right-to-work protests on television and saw the authorities using their clubs and mace on the protesters, it is strangely similar to watching the newsreel footage of Germany in the 1930s. Only difference is, those films were in black and white.

-- Clarkston

Whenever the schools ask for money, which is many times, they always say it is for the children. I wonder if they were thinking about the children when the various school districts recently closed so teachers could stand near the Capitol Building protesting right-to-work?

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-- Bloomfield Hills

People who thought Mitt Romney a job creator ignore the fact that he was also a job destroyer by downsizing, closing businesses and laying off workers. When all this was added up, there were more jobs lost than created.

-- Royal Oak

This is in response to the caller from Hazel Park who misquoted Jack Cunningham's Nov. 23 letter. The letter never refers to "God's plan" and, frankly, it would be incredibly presumptuous of me to even pretend to know God's plan. Instead, my article stated that we allow mothers to "kill the innocent baby whose only mistake was being the byproduct of that despicable act."

-- Troy

The Waterford Township taxpayers who have voted the good old boys club off the township board should pressure the new board members to remove the fire chief and the police chief and install new chiefs. These officials have done nothing but cost us money. They are never going to change. Demand that the board gets rid of these two.

-- Waterford Township

In response to the Oxford retiree who said that Mitt Romney keeps running amuck with his conversation in public about why he lost and that Obama was re-elected by a landslide: First of all, Mr. Retiree, you have all your facts wrong. Obama did not win by a landslide, and Romney is not running around the country saying why he lost. Obviously, he said that you can't outvote Santa Claus, which is true. The other thing is that if your income is finally stabilized, you're one in a million. You said Romney couldn't connect with people like you. It's more than obvious that you're a union member and you would have voted for a Democrat regardless of what was happening. So get on with a real life.

-- Clarkston

I realize there is a lot of uneducated people out there, but the caller from Madison Heights kind of took the cake as far as I am concerned. The caller said that oil companies are owned by Republicans. Oil companies are owned by shareholders, who may or may not be Republicans. They can be all different colors of the rainbow and have all sorts of different incomes. As a matter of fact, if you save your money and invest in a mutual fund, you probably own part of an oil company. Basically, the people who own the oil companies are the people who have attempted to provide for themselves. People who criticize the oil companies for making money are the people who are sitting on their rear ends waiting for the government to hand them something. That's like the Detroit city councilwoman who wants Obama to bring home the bacon because she voted for him. Romney was correct that most of the people who voted for Obama are looking for handouts and for the government to take care of them. They don't want to provide for themselves.